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"He worked down to the docks as a longshoreman an one day a crane was takin a big net load of bananas off one of them United Fruit Company boats an somethin broke an the bananas fell down on my daddy an squashed him flat as a pancake. One time I heard some men talkin bout the accident—say it was a helluva mess, half ton of all them bananas an my daddy squished underneath." - Forrest Gump[1]

The book goes on to explain that Mrs. Gump received a pension from the United Fruit company for her husband's death, so the family was able to survive.[1]